Pulling together and supporting President Trump is not a solution

In a recent guest opinion published July 19, Mr. Gerald Bennett says that if we all just pull together, drop our animus and support President Donald Trump, things will be just great. This is like saying that if the passengers on the Titanic had just held hands and cheered as the captain steered the ship into the iceberg everything would have turned out just fine.

Mr. Bennett’s rosy assessment based on some unstated fact checks and his biases defy the reality of the Trump Administration. He truly fails to see that Donald Trump is the problem, and in order to support him, a person must abandon both his or her conscience and his or her American values.

Most disturbing of Mr. Bennett's entire opinion is that a man who apparently worked honorably for so long could possibly write so positively about a despicable man like Donald Trump.

He demonstrates just how far and fast we have fallen since Trump’s election.

Donald Trump has shown us, over and over again, that there is no bar so low that he can’t slither and slime his way under it.

Sorry Mr. Bennett, President Donald Trump deserves all the animus he gets.